Jacket for water-bottles.



c. SINGER. I JACKET FOR WATER BOTTLES. APPLICATION FILED DBO. 2, 1910.

991,098. Patented May 2,1911.

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CHARLES SINGER, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

JACKET FUR WATEB-BQTTLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 2, 1911.

Application filed December 2, 1910. Serial No. 595,202.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES Srnonn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Jackets for Water- Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to jackets for water bottles and the like.

My invention is designed to provide means adapted to better handle bottles of rather large size and particularly for use in handling such bottles which are necessary to be inverted to be applied to the common, well-known coolers, by causing the neck and upper portions of the bottles to enter an opening in the liquid containing portion of the coolers and to rest upon the gasket to effect the hermetical sealing of the same against the admission of air into the liquid containing part.

My invention consists in the provision of a sectional jacket to adapt it to be opened up to embrace a bottle and to be clamped securely about it, the parts of such jacket being so formed as to engage not only its vertical sides but the respective ends thereof.

My invention also embraces the provision of handles upon the jacket frame to facilitate the easy handling of the bottle when supported in the jacket.

My invention further embraces an adj ustable closure means or stop for the bottle opening that will normally close said opening or may be readily manipulated to unclose said opening when the bottle is properly positioned over the opening in the receptacle upon which the bottle is designed to be placed.

Referring to the drawingsFigure 1 is a side elevation showing the jacket inverted and applied to a bottle (the bottle being shown in dotted lines) and a diagrammatic disclosure of the top portion of a cooler structure; Fig. 2 is also a side elevation of my invention, sections thereof in opened relation; Fig. 3 is a top view of my invention; Fig. 4: is a bottom view of the same, and Fig. 5 is a detail view showing the particular means of supporting a spring actuated rod which is adapted to carry a stopper for the bottle.

Referring to the figures, 2 are vertical stays bent at right angles'as at 3 to engage the bottom of a bottle and curved as at 4 to engage the top of the bottle.

are semicircular frame parts to which the stays 2 are adapted to be united to form stable sections as A and B.

6 are hinges which adapt the sections to be opened and closed.

7 is a hooked bar secured to one of the stays 2, and 8 is a loop secured to an adjacentstay, said hooked bar and loop effecting an engaging connection on the opposite side of the jacket from where the sections are hinged together, so that when the jacket is caused to embrace a bottle and the two sections are hooked together, the said acket will be caused to embrace the bottle with the clips 3 engaging the bottom thereof and the curved portions a embracing the curved top of the bottle, thereby inclosing the bottle in the jacket in a manner so that it can be readily handled. 9 are handles which are attached to stays 2, one upon each section.

10 is a rod adapted to be passed through perforations in one of the handles 9 so that it will be supported in parallel relation with the side of the jacket and the bottle. The upper end (or lower end when the bottle is inverted) is curved into the arm 11 and supports at its outer end the cap or stopper 12. The rod 10 is adapted to be turned to cause the stopper to close the bottle or to open it, and to limitsuch turning movement the pin 13 is provided which as the rod is turned to open the bottle, will strike the adjacent stay 2 and prevent its further turning.

To accomplish the turning of the rod, the coil spring 14: is provided carried about the rod, one end thereof engaging the handle 9 as at 15 and the other end thereof being passed through a perforation in the rod as at 16. Because of the connection of the coil spring with the handle and with the rod, and on account of the particular manner of applying the same to the rod, it will be seen that there is a normal tendency of the rod to be turned so as to move the stopper away from the bottle opening. The normal position of the rod is that shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and in such position the normal resiliency of the spring will draw the rod and cap into the position shown in dotted lines.

The jacket having been applied to a bottle and the cork of the bottle having been removed, the rod 10 may be forced upwardly against the tension of spring 14 and turned laterally until cap 12 closes the bottle, then the bottle may be inverted and when it occupies the position shown in Fig. 1 with relation to the cooler, the operator, by pressing his thumb upon the end of rod 10 will raise cap 12 from its seat over the bottle opening and the torsion of the spring will turn the rod, thus opening the bottle and the force of the spring will draw the rod clownwardly into the position shown in dotted lines.

The device is extremely simple and easily applied and is very useful in practice in handling bottles which are normally slippery and hard to handle. By the provision of the springheld-cap 12 it is not necessary to apply the hand, as is the common practice, over the bottle opening as the cap effects the closure, and therefore the disagreeable effect and result of such necessity in ordinary practice of using the hand to make the closure is avoided.

I have illustrated one form of applying my invention but it may be constructed in different forms to accomplish the same result, and therefore do not desire to limit myself to the particular construction herein shown.

What I claim is 1. In a jacket for water bottles, the combination of two sections formed of open framework, each provided with inwardly projecting portions adapted to engage the bottom of the bottle, and inwardly curved portions adapted to engage the top portion of the bottle at the turn approaching the neck portion thereof but leaving the bottle sufficiently unobstructed at its top portion to permit it to be seated in the circular opening of a cooler, said sections being provided with hinges at meeting edges upon one side and with a clasp portion upon meeting edges at the other side of the bottle, and means for supporting a stopper under spring tension to cause it to engage the opening in the bottle and when lifted from its engagement with the bottle to be turned laterally therefrom.

2. In a jacket for water bottles and the like, the combination of separable sections adapted to be secured about a bottle and provided with hand-holds thereon, wardly curved portions adapted to engage the top portion of the bottle in a manner to leave a suflicient part of the upper curved portion of the bottle unobstructed to permit the bottle when inverted to be seated in the circular opening of a cooler, means for securing the sections together about the bottle, a spring and a longitudinally movable rod supported on the jacket in a relation that under the normal tension of the spring, the stopper will. be held over the opening in the bottle and under the longitudinal movement of the rod the cap will be released from the opening, and under the spiral tension of the spring will be turned to one side.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES SINGER. IVitnesses MARY E. CoMnoir, IN. V. Term.

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